Record Albums of 45rpm Records

We've recently acquired a few very nice, original, 45rpm record holders. These are very nice little books that one would have carried their records over the a friends house to spin some 45's. These are very swanky in their style and we've tried to create a super cross-section of records to represent different eras of music throughout history.

Here is one of the books. This is sold on an "as is" basis and we feel there is a good enough selection of songs, that we are not allowing substitutions. We are selling each for a mere $24.98. Each of these singles would sell for much more individually priced. Plus, you get the cool book that would look right at home on the set of "Mad Men". It's like that.

Here is the first one.

1. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

2. David Bowie - Let's Dance (with Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar)

3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend

4. Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay

5. Four Seasons - Let's Hang On

6. The Gentrys - Keep On Dancing

7. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

8. The Hollies - Carrie Anne

9. Hues Corperation - Rock the Boat

10. Jackson Five - Dancing Machine

11. The Kingsmen - Louie Louie

12. Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (Nice B-Side of Living Loving Maid)

13. Mama's & Papa's - Monday Monday

14. Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died

15. Elvis Presley - Mystery Train (RCA)

16. The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women

17. Ray Stevens - The Streak

18. The Troggs - Wild Thing

19. Barry White - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe

20. The Who - Pinball Wizard

Here is the other one we've collected.

1. The Beatles - Hey Jude/Revolution

2. Brownsville Station - Smoking in the Boys Room

3. Eric Burdon - That Ain't Where It's At

4. Chantays - Pipeline

5. Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

6. Dave Clark Five - Anyway You Want It

7. Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man

8. Chicago - Just You N Me

9. Aretha Franklin - Mockingbird

10. Tommy James - Crystal Blue Persuasion

11. Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop

12. Steve Miller Band - The Joker

13. Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin

14. Rare Earth - Get Ready

15. Rascals - Real Thing

16. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

17. Shadows of Night - Gloria

18. The Vogues - Five O'Clock World

19. Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life

20. Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly

Rediscover Records Record Store Day List 2012

Here is our modest Record Store Day list. As with the nature of Limited Releases, we did not get everything we ordered. We hope you find something here you like. We will open promptly at 9am. Please enter in an orderly fashion (Remember, "Love & tolerance of others is our code"), we will expedite the line and the check-outs as quickly as possible. Certain items we ordered or received just (1) copy.

We will also have complimentary fresh fruit, pastries and coffee. Plenty of *FREE* Record Store Day Promotional items will be given away with your purchase, but be advised, supplies are limited. Also, with the nature of limited pressings on certain records, the number we ordered, and the number of items we actually received, we're going to run out of certain things. We can only hope you find things to your liking as you spend time at Rediscover Records.

We'll also have our special Rediscover Records T-Shirts on special for $10.00.

RECORD STORE DAY LIST 2012

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II

Brendan Benson - What Kind of World

Black Keys - El Camino

Blitzen Trapper - Hey Joe

Bloos Magoos - So I'm Wrong & You're Right

Blue Project - Punchman Farm

David Bowie - Mick Rock Tin

Richard Buckner - Willow/Lost

Breakfast Club Soundtrack -Various

James Brown - Live at the Appollo

Dave Bruback - Fantasy 3-3

Bruno Mars - Grenade Sessions

The Byrds - I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Wand - Diddy Wah Diddy

The Clash - London Calling

Common - Dreamer the Believer

The Cult - For the Animals

The Cure - Entreat Plus

Cursive - Burst & Bloom

Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr - We Almost Lost Detroit

Miles Davis - Forever Miles

Deerhoof/Of Montreal -Stygian Bisection

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Dry the River - New Ceremony

Justin Townes Earle - Nothings Gonna Change. . .

Empire Records - Soundtrack

Farrar, Johnson, Parker, Yames - Let's Multiply

Flaming Lips/Mastodon - Spoonful Weighs A Ton

Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies

Florence & the Machine - Shake It Out

Futurebirds - Seney Stoval

Garbage - Blood For Poppies

Lee Hazelwood - The LHI Years

Patterson Hood - After It's Gone

Mastodon / Feist - Feistodon "A Commotion" with "Black Tongue"

MC5/Afrika Bambaataa - Kick Out the Jams

Metallica - Beyond Magic

Misfits - Walk Among Us

The Neanderthals - Teen Dance Time

Of Monsters & Men - Into... 10"

Ozzy Osborne - Believer

Phish - Junta Deluxe Pollock Edition

Iggy Pop - Raw Power

Pussy Galore - Feel Good Abour Your Body EP

Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin - Respect

Paul Revere & the Raiders - Ride Your Pony

Paul Simon - Graceland 25 Anniv. LP

Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

Small Faces - Tin Soldier

Regina Spektor - Sings Two Bulat Okudzhava

Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground with The Promise (Live)

Starf***** - Heaven's Use

Stax Box Set - 1968-1974 "Never To Be Forgotten: The Flip Side of Stax"

Peter Tosh - Legalize It

Pete Townsend - Quadrophenia Demos

Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone

Uncle Tupleo - March 16-20

M Ward - Primitive Girl

Mike Watt - Sweet Honey Pie

White Stripes - Hand Springs

Widespread Panic - Live Wood

Record Store Day 2012

Record Store Day is fast approaching! As of now, it is less than one week away! What's on your list? We will be posting our list to this blog, our Facebook page, and of course, our website as soon as we know our full Record Store Day inventory. We don't even know what we will have until we have it in our grubby little mitts. We're excited, are you excited?

See you on Record Store Day!

On Saturday April 14th we posted several quotes about independent record stores that were culled from the Record Store Day quotes page to our Rediscover-Record Facebook Page. Ahem, like this page if you have not already, please. Here are a few of them.

‎"One of my most vivid record store memories was being in Belmont Records in Springfield, Massachusetts when the first shipment of Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" arrived. I helped the manager, John Dougan, unpack the boxes. We pulled out the first two copies, looked at the great cover shot, then flipped it over to the list of songs on the back, imagining their greatness solely by their titles: "Badlands", "Candy's Room", "Racing In The Streets", "Prove It All Night", "Promised Land"... How could they not be great songs with titles like these?! We put the album on the store's turntable, blasted it, and we were right - it was incredible. I must confess that I use iTunes and buy CD's online when I'm not near a record store, but I'll never have a moment like that sitting at my computer." -Mike Scully (writer for "The Simpsons")

“The idea of, ‘The journey is the destination’ is put into action by browsing in an indie record store. Besides, a human being is a much better guide than a ‘More Like This’ link on the internet.”

--Patton Oswalt

“It’s important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.” --Norah Jones

I don't know what I would do without indie record stores. Having grown up in a town without them, I can tell you that it's no fun to shop for indie records at chain box stores. Independent record stores like Sonic Boom in Seattle, Rockin Rudys in Missoula and 2nd Avenue in Portland were holy golden shrines to me growing up. Actually, they still are.

--Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)

"Yes, yes, I know. It's easier to download music, and probably cheaper. But what's playing on your favourite download store when you walk into it? Nothing, that's what. Who are you going to meet in there? Nobody. Where are the notice boards offering flatshares and vacant slots in bands destined for superstardom? Who's going to tell you to stop listening to that and start listening to this? Go ahead and save yourself a couple of quid. The saving will cost you a career, a set of cool friends, musical taste and, eventually, your soul. Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.. " --Nick Hornby

"C'mon and take your best shot

Let me see what you got

Bring on your wrecking ball"

-Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen's new release, "Wrecking Ball" (Columbia Records) has been hailed in many circles as one of the better new releases of 2012. The song "Wrecking Ball" is about the demolition of Giants_Stadium in the Meadowlands of New Jersey, or as one might say, "somewhere in the swamps Jersey".

As with most of the gentrification of these United States, the City of Elgin is no stranger to the destruction of the wrecking ball. Take a look at any older picture of downtown Elgin and you will see the landscape of this urban city dramatically different than what you see today.

The most significant building in Elgin to suffer the wrath of the wrecking ball was the Elgin National Watch Factory. The Elgin National Watch Factory (on National Street) was in operation from 1867 to the early 1960's. It was the premier watch manufacturer in the world. Over 1 million watches were produced at the factory. Over half of the pocket watches produced in the United States were manufactured at the Watch Factory. To tie some music into this, the Robert_Johnson recording "Walkin Blues" mentions an Elgin Watch, "She's got Elgin movements from her head down to her toes." We can count foreign competition, like the themes of some Springsteen songs, as the main culprit for the Watch Factory's demise.

The photo above is an actual Elgin pocket watch (placed on the Springsteen album cover "Wrecking Ball") from around 1948. It is a "Railroad" watch. Railroad watches had to be calibrated to such precise times that trains and their conductors could run their train schedules around these watches.

Here is the Elgin Watch Factory in it's hey day. Today, if you are familiar with the Elgin Grand Victoria Casino, the GVC is just to the left of this picture on Grove St.

The wrecking ball came to the watch factory beginning in the summer of 1966. These photos here are from the E.C. Alft's book, "Old Elgin: A Pictorial History". The Watch Factory clock tower had a face and hands that rivaled the size of London's "Big Ben". Its almost criminal the powers that be of Elgin didn't at least have the foresight to at least preserve the Tower. They did not.

"All of our victories and glories have turned to parking lots" -Bruce Springsteen "Wrecking Ball"

The Watch Factory land, more or less, stood vacant until a shopping center was built in the mid-1980's. Much of the soil under the factory had to be eradicated because of radium. In fact, the layout of the parking lot is in such a way to encapsulate whatever radium that may have remained. Today a Butera Grocery store and several other strip mall type stores occupy the Watch Factory grounds.

To see a fantastic exhibit on the Elgin Watch Factory visit the Elgin Historical Society at 360 Park St. in Elgin. In it is an actual hour hand from the Tower.

Find Bruce Springsteen's new record "Wrecking Ball" at Rediscover Records. Here is Springsteen performing "Wrecking Ball"

Open Later on Thursday Nights

Yes! We are open later on Thursday nights! We'll stay open until at least 7pm. If we have people here flippin' through bins, talkin music, and looking to pick up some records, we'll leave the doors open. Look for your favorite new releases as well as any vinyl classics you were looking to add to your record collection.

A few new releases to note that we have is the new Kathleen Edwards, Black Keys, M83, Flaming Lips reissue of "Soft Bulletin", & the posthumous release by Amy Winehouse. As far as the used records go, we've recently scored a really choice selection of old school country records filled with the likes of Flatt & Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Charlie Louvin, and people's poet, Hank Williams, Sr.

Remember, Rediscover Records is within the walls of the Two Doors Down shop. In addition to great records you'll see really cool things like this lithograph of the Elgin National Watch Company that is pictured here. Look for equally cool things in the store and listen to great music from Rediscover Records as your soundtrack.

When you visit us on Thursday nights you can tie that in with other great places and restaurants in Downtown Elgin. An immensely popular function in recent months has been on Thursdays at Villa Verone with the "Elgin Person Of the Week", where a yokel is honored, but not necessarily roasted, as the person of the week. Look for them behind the bar! A recent twist on this is the "Elgin Non-Profit of the Month" where a local non-profit organization is honored and donations to that non-profit are suggested as an admission. Please look to Toom Toom Thai and the Elgin Public House as other dining options
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2011 Faves and other News

Welcome back to the Rediscover Records music blog (Why do we feel the need to chuckle at the words "music blog"?) where you can find news and updates to all things Rediscover Records.

We are always looking to stock the best in new releases and we found that 2011 had no shortage of great releases. Here were a just a few of our favorite records of 2011!

-Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine

-Wild Flag - Wild Flag

-The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (Yes, the title is an homage to The Smiths)

-Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

-Okkervil River - I Am Very Far

-Centro-matic - Candidates Waltz

-Richard Buckner - Our Blood

-Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Hear We Rest

Here is Jason Isbell with "Alabama Pines"

We were really struck by the Wheedles Groove Box Set, which is a wonderful selection of 45's from Seattle's funk and soul scene from the 1965 to the late 1970's. (Read more about it in the different colored font above). You can order from our website as well with our secure "Buy Now" pay pal buttons. They bring you directly to your own pay pal account.

Other news, the Louvin Brothers reissues are fantastic. Get your really old school country on with the Louvins! Inspirations to generations of singers and songwriters.

We are also particularly fond of the recent reissue of Morphine's "Cure For Pain". Find the classic reissue on vinyl at Rediscover Records.

Now, of course, our blog entries are time sensitive, so if you are reading this weeks or months from the date, shoot us an email (records@rediscoverrecords.com), a phone call (847.961.8445) or check our website to make sure some of these releases are still in stock. Thanks for reading and as always, Keep 'Em Spinnin'!

Holiday Window

When out and about Downtown Elgin with your holiday shopping, please be sure to take note of all the festive decorations in the downtown storefront windows. Our window at Rediscover Records is no exception as we have borrowed and merged the world of H.O. Scale model railroading with the music industry.

We have references to the Elgin Tower Building, Sun Records, Abbey Road, Folsom Prison, a Crazy Train, Clarksville, Bob & Suze, and a Downbound Train. Also many other musical references and sign-posts along the way. Try to spot them all!

Find all, or at least, hopefully, a good portion of your holiday shopping right in downtown Elgin with shops such as Rediscover Records, Two Doors Down, Salon Couture, SpaceTaste, Elgin Antiques, Shockey Jewelers, and a new addition this holiday season, Our Favorite Things located just up the block from us at 215 E. Chicago St.

Plenty of great places to eat and drink and be Merry (Christmas) around town as well with the likes of Domani Cafe, Ravenheart Coffee, Villa Verone, Elgin Public House, Toom Toom Thai, Bangkok House and a few others we may be forgetting.

We have linked a few of the businesses here with the bolder font (Yes, by all means, click on these links!), forgive us if we did not link your favorite. Please do you best to see all the windows and support Downtown Elgin businesses.